The US Justice Department is charging seven Russian military intelligence officials over the alleged hacking of doping agencies and other organisations. Britain and Australia on Thursday blamed Russia's military intelligence service for some of the biggest cyber attacks of recent years - including one on the Democratic National Committee during the 2016 USA presidential campaign. [Full Article...]

President Shehbaz Sharif was arrested by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on Friday in a Rs 14 billion housing scam case. The NAB alleged that the former CM has misused his authority during his tenure as Punjab chief minister and involved in corruption. [Full Article...]

Pompeo and Kim will also likely discuss a second summit between Kim and President Trump, which the White House said was in the works earlier last month. rubbish". "I think the two sides adjusted their differences on what initial steps North Korea and the United States will each take", said Koh Yu-hwan, a Dongguk University professor. [Full Article...]

The 25-page document said extremist groups, using encrypted communications and social media, are spread around the world to a greater extent than ever before. "These groups, including Boko Haram , Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan, and Lashkar-e Taiba, employ a range of political and terrorist tactics to undermine local governments and conduct attacks", it said. [Full Article...]

However, Democrats claimed the probe as an incomplete vetting constrained by a White House determined to push through the lifetime appointment of Trump's man. A previously undecided Democratic senator, Heidi Heitkamp, said she would vote against Mr Kavanaugh, citing "concerns about his past conduct" and questions about his "temperament, honesty and impartiality" after his angry, defiant testim... [Full Article...]

While the Nobel committee hailed the work done by Congolese gynaecologist Mukwege for treating thousands of women who had been victims of sexual violence, Murad's personal and bitter experience with sexual violence was highlighted in her battle against using sexual violence as a weapon in conflict zones. [Full Article...]

Orrin Hatch waved dismissively at a group of female protesters, telling them to " grow up " as he got on an elevator on Capitol Hill. Trump is claiming, with zero evidence, that because the protests had some professional organization, like mass-produced signs, the protestors are "paid professionals" in the employ of George Soros , the Hungarian-born Jewish billionaire philanthropist and Holoca... [Full Article...]

In return for pardoning Samsung Group Chairman Lee Gun-hee, Lee had the electronics giant pay for DAS's legal fees in the USA, which came to 61 billion won. All four former South Korean presidents who are still alive have now been convicted of criminal offences. The court also said it was wrong for Lee to continue to deny the charges against him, and admonished him for attempting to shift the bl... [Full Article...]